breaking news, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein has a new right-hand man in the russia investigation. this is an important step, rosenstein picking the veteran prosecutor ed o callahan. he will serve as the acting principal associate deputy attorney general. this comes on the same day that the first sentence was handed down in the mueller probe. justice reporter lara jarrett joins me outfront on the phone with the breaking details. what more are you learning? reporter: erin, o callahan is a verne federal prosecutor. he s prosecuted terrorism cases, high-profile ones, primarily in new york, but he now lands in the thick of perhaps the highest-profile investigation currently at the justice department as the special counsel deepens his probe into former trump campaign associates. but he s going to have way more on his plate. in fact, unlike many people at the justice department, o callahan is going to be responsible for managing all of the units at doj, everything from the crimi
former cia chief for russia operations and richard painter, white house ethics lawyer under president george w. bush. richard, this appointment of the right-hand man, ed o callahan to rod rosenstein, involving the russia investigation, also comes as the first sentence is handed down in the mueller probe. do you think that this new appointment makes mueller s position more secure or not? i don t know if it makes a difference. it s clear that rod rosenstein s taking this seriously and he has thus far not been willing to interfere with robert mueller. he appointed robert mueller. there s no indication here that he is going to try to interfere with robert mueller and the investigation. and that s what s important. that robert mueller continues to have independence to pursue the investigation. he already has indicted several people. he has people cooperating with the investigation. he is under attack in the right-wing media, fox news and
i run by schools every day, there is no perimeter security but we re in an age in the 21st century we re asking whether we have to secure an entire school compound. middle school, grade school. i think the same question is going to start to pop up for commercial america. that is silicon valley, here on the east coast we ve got obviously high-tech areas in places like boston. are we going to ask questions about not only securing airports, securing public buildings but securing the perimeters of large areas around schools and public facility? it s a remarkable transformation in america. pretty remarkable and tragic in and of itself, the fact we re sitting here having this conversation again, and obviously miraculous in a sense that it was not much, much worse, which, of course, early reports were that it very much could have been. thank you, all four, so very much. thank you. next, breaking news. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein with a new right-hand man. this is going to be